Thanks for answering the roll call. And now, a question.
Richard June
rjune at bravegnuworld.com
Wed Apr 18 04:57:28 UTC 2007
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 14:18, Steve Hargadon wrote:
> On 4/16/07, Greg Dekoenigsberg <gdk at redhat.com> wrote:
> > What should Red Hat be doing in the education space?
>
> Some more information on Indiana:
>
> They aren't using Linux thin client for a couple of reasons. First,
> they are purchasing new, Dell and whitebox PCs for under $300, and
> they get the benefit of thick-client usage. They use Ardence mostly
> to stream down the full OS to each PC. According to some
> conversations I've had with Mike, they haven't felt that LTSP would
> give them the functionality that they want, and didn't see a huge
> price savings.
>
> However, that may now be changing. One of their most difficult
> hurdles is that the full PC generate a lot of heat, and they have to
> upgrade the air conditioning in the school buildings--and that's
> turning out to be a problem. Using some low-watt thin-clients may be
> the answer for them.
>
> They are also experiencing some difficulties with Ardence. They were
> bought by Citrix, which is owned by Microsoft. I've been in contact
> with Mike from fl_TeacherTool, as he has visited a site in Canada that
> is running thick-client streaming full FLOSS. Seems like this might
> be a good option for them as well.
I hadn't heard that part. My understanding is that Ardence is basically doing
NFS root of a full OS. Which is similar to what LTSP 5 (muekow) is doing on
Ubuntu and a few other distributions
.
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